cặc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cac"

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

kẹc
cặk, căk

Etymology

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The indefinite pronoun sense evolves from the noun sense owing to the Jaspersen's cycle, by which, for instances, French negative pronouns pas, personne, and rien evolve.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kak̚˧˨ʔ]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kak̚˨˩ʔ]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kak̚˨˩˨]

Noun

cặc • (極, 胳)

(very vulgar) cock, prick, dick
Synonyms: buồi, cu
- Nam Giao cổ kim lý hạng ca dao chú giải (《南交古金里巷歌謠註解》 "Past & Present Folk-ballads from the Hamlets and Alleyways of Jiao[zhi] in the South - Annotated "), folio 193b
  󱥕(Nứng)󱥌(cặc)辰(thì)搏(vác)𦥃(đến)茄(nhà)
  [If] [your] cock [were] hard, then carry [it] to [my] home.

Pronoun

cặc

(very vulgar, indefinite) nothing
Cho mày cái con cặc nè!
I'll give you no fucking thing!